Public networks like Facebook and LinkedIn can be used for marketing, recruitment, prospecting and brand enhancement.
Almost all public networks allowed data such as user names and passwords to pass through the air unencrypted.
Projects have been plagued by technical problems, poor reception indoors and accusations that public networks interfere with private ones.
And professionals, thanks to their familiarity with public networks, now have the skills and experience to use online communities effectively.
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Under the proposal, state lotteries would be prohibited from selling tickets online, although some games would be allowed in public places over public networks.
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The public networks we use daily are foundational to networked business.
But time and time again, the so-called "air gaps" between classified and public networks have been bridged, largely through the use of discs and removable drives.
Agencies will use electronic media and formats, including public networks, as appropriate and within budgetary constraints, in order to make government information more easily accessible and useful to the public.
That is not a job for public networks.
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While much networked business is conducted over private networks (or encrypted tunnels through public networks), the Internet (including the Web), open WiFi networks and various mobile networks are also commonly used to connect members of business networks.
The growing population of public social network participants will result in an ever-larger number of people who need and want to participate in private communities, if only to turn down the noise and tune out the clutter of the public networks.
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In forums that look like Twitter feeds or Facebook pages, sales teams can share leads and information about clients (some of it gleaned from profiles on public networks), ask for and get speedy approval of discounts and slap one another virtually on the back for clinching a deal.
Heavy snowfall has caused major disruption to motorists and public transport networks across England.
During the earthquake and the hurricane both there were no reported outages of any Public Safety networks.
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Plans have been revealed for a Scotland-wide travel smart card which can be used across public transport networks.
Once deployment is completed, Hawaii will have one of the nation's first statewide public charging networks supporting electric vehicle drivers.
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As public social networks such as LinkedIn and Twitter continue to grow, additional small affinity-based social networks will also keep emerging.
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Public social networks like LinkedIn provide additional insight into customer connections, preferences, behaviors and sentiments, which can lead to more productive sales engagements.
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Clubster provides the privacy that the private club industry needs and demands, while offering the features of public social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
And while the IT Professional chatted with an Autodesk representative about refinements to a product, consumers talk with each other on public social networks like Facebook.
Barriers to entry are very low in public social networks.
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Making activity streams work in a social network internal to a company is much easier than getting all the companies on the public social networks to play nicely together.
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As part of the bargain with the city, the Broadband Challenge should include plans for free public wifi networks in city parks and other places, and increased connectivity to schools, libraries and community centers.
Many agencies are following this lead, building new public safety radio networks, especially on the 800 megahertz band.
And on July 1, 2011, Cablevision completed the spinoff of its Rainbow Media programming unit, which went public as AMC Networks (AMCX).
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This is far more efficient than conventional public safety radio networks because it acts like cellular to optimize the use of radio channels which are now a scare commodity.
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His big scores include streaming media outfit RealNetworks, which went public in 1997, and RedBack Networks, a networking company that went public in 1999.
The Oct. 22 initial public offering of Sycamore Networks, an optical networking company, clinched it.
Motorola Solutions is also betting public-safety communications networks will be upgraded to the speedy 4G wireless technology LTE.
Between this and Firesheep, the moral of the story seems to be to avoid using public Wi-Fi networks.
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